Psychological Manipulation In George Orwell's 1984

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In today’s world we still cite George Orwell’s novel 1984 when talking about psychological manipulation and how we are affected by it. Winston Smith and the rest of the citizens of Oceania are controlled daily by the use of psychological manipulation done by the overpowering government. They are constantly monitored by telescreens and filled with the fear that the thought police will come after them for thinking and saying radical thoughts. A known fact in Oceania citizens lives is that Big Brother is always watching you. The government of Oceania is the epitome of psychological manipulation and by maintaining power it causes distress on society. The Party also know as the government manipulates the past in order to control the present. Winston …show more content…

Newspeak is the official language of Oceania that will be adopted around 2050, it is engineered to remove the possibility of rebellious thoughts, Newspeak contains no negative terms (Orwell 19%). "Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it. Every concept that can ever be needed will be expressed by exactly one word, with its meaning rigidly defined and all its subsidiary meanings rubbed out and forgotten,” by limiting the range of thought The Party is suppressing its citizens to only what they want them to think, after Newspeak is the only language spoken disruptive behavior should end along with the need of the thought police (Orwell 15%). A professor at the University of Missouri believed that by regulating the language of the society you can maintain total control of thoughts “ I think that "1984," one of the main things I take away from that is his ultimate extension of that theme into news, showing how you can completely control modes of thought in a society by altering what acceptable language is,” (‘1984’ 60 Years Later). The Party once again holds dominance over it’s citizens by creating it’s own language and establishes that soon the possibility of rebellion will be

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